It is every mother’s nightmare: battling an illness
or a disease while pregnant and having not one but two lives in the
balance. Caroline Swain and Dina Fiasconaro are two of those
women. Caroline found out she had breast cancer and a few weeks later
learned that she was pregnant with Luke, Dina on the otherhand was
struggling with mental illness while pregnant with her little girl.

Thousands of women face the same problems as Caroline and Dina. And
not knowing whether it is ok to take their medication or receive
treatment makes things even worse. They are diagnosed with an illness,
from rheumatoid arthritis to lupus, and they become pregnant, or they
get pregnant and then find out they have cancer. They are kept in the
dark, surrounded by doubts and concerns. Most of the time, these women
and their doctors don't have enough information about their treatment
options to safeguard their health and their baby's.

With every £2 donated, you are making a contribution
that can impact two lives. Our dream is to send these kits to
100 hospitals in the UK and offer support to women
in your area.

We’ve already been able to provide 20 hospitals in the US with our information kits. Each
one contains on average 2 posters and 150 flyers, depending on the
size of the hospital.

We need your help!

Every£10 raised will help reach around 150 women. By
donating, you can help us get this information to expecting mums who
need it and the more money we raise, the more women we can
help.. If we reach our target of £35,000, we’ll be able to
send information kits to 100 hospitals in the UK, and we’ll
also be sharing some of the proceeds with other charities who support pregnant
women (those with medical conditions or with questions about
medication and pregnancy). If we’re successful with this campaign, we
also hope to reach other countries.

Where your money goes

Having the right information is the first step towards an informed
decision about treatment and medication options. Thanks to your
donation, you are helping to:

Inform pregnant women at their point of care with
doctor-validated information toolkits that include posters and
flyers (50% of money raised)

Support our future
activities to continue to increase awareness. In the
short term, this will be to fund campaigns that will help us prove
to the medical community that women all around the world care deeply
about this issue. In the longer term, we seek to create pregnancy
registries, advocate for pregnant women’s rights, and to help bring
this issue to the top of the medical agenda (25% of money raised)

See the impact

Your donation will bring information toolkits to hospitals and
medical centres in the UK. See the list and locations in this interactive map. We are looking
to add many more hospitals to this list.

Stories

We will be updating this section during the campaign with selected
stories about women who have faced the issue of taking medicine during
pregnancy. Read all our stories and blog posts on our website.

The Pregnancy & Medicine
Initiative, part of The Synergist, aims to raise
awareness and help address the information vacuum concerning the use
of medicines and medical treatment in pregnancy. By working together
to shift medical thinking, we can ensure that mothers-to-be can have
three basic rights:

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